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Anita Brookner

"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

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"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

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"I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to."

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"The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you've got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You've got to stop. You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home."

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"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids."

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"I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me."

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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."

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"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."

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Anita Brookner
"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Love

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Anita Brookner
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Religion

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Anita Brookner
"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."

Time

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Anita Brookner
"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

People

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Anita Brookner
"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."

Will

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Anita Brookner
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

Love

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Anita Brookner
"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

Man

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Anita Brookner
"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Friendship

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Anita Brookner
"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

Home

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Anita Brookner
"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Trustworthiness

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